Version 1.3 of the AdSense Management API is now available and comes with new features to help you retrieve more publisher and reporting information. Metadata for reporting dimensions and metrics This is a highly requested feature that provides information on the list of available dimensions and metrics for the publishers, as well as their compatibility. This is useful to help developers avoid generating reports with invalid dimensions and metrics.

Kunal Verma and William Ferguson never imagined that coding for fun would one day become more than just a pastime. Both developers now independently run their own app businesses, Verma's XigXag Interactive is a full-time job in India and Ferguson's XandarMob is a side gig. Verma's apps have reached 1.5 million downloads on Google Play, his most popular ones, such as Kids Musical Toys Set , are catered to children.

In our previous blog posts, we discussed post-filtered bids and disapproved ads . In those posts we recommended integrating tools such as the Creative REST API, Snippet Status Reports, and Publisher Settings File into your bidder as best practices to improve the efficiency of your application. Today, we'd like to share how to integrate these tools into your setup. Why implement these tools into your bidder? As a recap,

We're pleased to announce the newest DFA Reporting API release, version 1.2. This version's main additions include paid search dimensions and a way to view all reports and files in your account, not just those that you own. Paid Search Paid search dimensions have been added to the API with this release. We also added support for these new dimensions to version 1.1 , but only version 1.

The sunset date for v201209 of the AdWords API has been extended to July 22, 2013. This will provide you with additional migration time while you are exploring the newly launched Enhanced Campaigns functionality. Calls made to this version after July 22, 2013 will fail. It is therefore important that you migrate to AdWords API v201302 if you want your applications to continue to run without interruption. If you have any questions about the sunset or need help with migration,

Last week at Google I/O, we had a Google Ads Track where we provided updates on our Google Ads products. We also made some product announcements, including the launch of a new AdMob to help you build your app business and Open Bidder to help you create real-time bidding applications. If you weren't able to attend these sessions in person or watch the live stream,

Toni Fingerroos, a games developer in Finland, became inspired to create a mobile app. He devoted 3 months to building it, often working 16 hour days. That idea became the hugely popular Hill Climb Racing , and the game has grown to be part of a successful app business called Fingersoft. Hill Climb Racing has been downloaded in over 145 countries on both iOS and Android.

We recently announced upgraded ad extensions that provide many new capabilities, including mobile-optimized settings, new scheduling features, and detailed reporting at the individual sitelink level. We'll be helping all advertisers transition to these improved extensions over the coming months. Starting on September 23, 2013, the AdWords API will support only these upgraded extensions, including the 25-character sitelink limit ,

Thursday at Google I/O 2013, we announced Open Bidder, a fully customizable toolkit for building real-time bidding applications. By combining the speed and flexibility of the Google Cloud Platform with DoubleClick's expertise in real-time bidding , Open Bidder provides developers a robust platform to quickly create innovative RTB solutions. Currently, companies interested in building their own real-time bidding technology face significant barriers to overcome,

We're committed to helping app developers with discovery, distribution and monetization on all platforms so they can continue doing what they do best: creating awesome apps. Last year, we integrated our AdMob inventory into the AdWords system , giving mobile app developers access to many more new advertisers. And we've continued to invest in tools to help app developers succeed. Today at I/O, we're announcing that we've rebuilt AdMob,

We're pleased to announce that the recorded talks for the AdWords API Workshops are now available . The talks are from the workshop in New York, but we had the same agenda for all other locations.

Editor's note: repost from Developers Blog , -Stan Grinberg At Google I/O 2013 , we will share the future of our platforms with you. Developers from all over the world are the key innovators of powerful, breakthrough technologies, and that's why we challenged ourselves to make the Google I/O experience available to every developer, everywhere. Watch Google I/O live From the comfort of your own home, office, secret lair, or anywhere you have a reliable Internet connection,

We recently created two visual representations, the Basic SDK Interaction Diagram and the SDK-Player Interaction Diagram , that illustrate the actions that occur once your video player is fully integrated with the v3 IMA SDK. These diagrams outline both: the high level interactions that take place among the IMA SDK, DoubleClick for Publishers )DFP(, AdSense for Video )AFV(,

We are pleased to announce that updated localized editions of the IMA SDK v3 documentation are now available for the following languages: Spanish Japanese Korean Brazilian Portuguese Russian Chinese )Simplified( Chinese )Traditional( To view the localized edition of the latest documentation, be sure to select the desired language from the menu in the footer of any page.

We recently announced the ability to set an eCPM floor when making requests to the AdMob network. This post will show you how to set up this new feature to get the maximum benefit from the AdMob network. First of all, we highly recommend that you create a new AdMob publisher ID on admob.com for each Mediation Placement you want to configure with AdMob eCPM floor. By creating a unique publisher ID,

To provide more control and precision over bids in enhanced campaigns, we've now made ad group level mobile bid adjustments available in the AdWords API, as previously announced . While the majority of advertisers will still see the most value in using the existing campaign level bid adjustments , this new feature will be useful for those who wish to set different mobile bid adjustments within an enhanced campaign.

We're pleased to announce the availability of version v1.20 of the DFA API. This latest release exposes many new properties on the objects in our API. These new fields are useful for customers interested in generating match tables . A full listing of these additions can be found in our release notes page. Version v1.20 can be thought of as an optional release. Since v1.20 is an optional release, it and v1.19 will both remain usable once your account is upgraded to use DDMM .

We have just released version 6.4.1 of the Google AdMob SDK for both Android and iOS. The Android release includes: The ability to resize a DfpAdView using dfpAdView.resize)AdSize( A fix for the ANR errors seen in v6.3 The iOS release fixes a crash that occurs if the Advertising Identifier is nil . You can get the latest SDKs from our downloads page. Find us on the forum if have questions about the new Google AdMob SDKs.

Today we're releasing version 6.4.0 of the Google AdMob SDK for iOS developers. In addition to the maintenance and bug fixes listed below, this version of the SDK completes the transition away from UDID, which began with version 6.2 .

Polygon Criterion , )also referred to as custom shapes, multi-point or polygon targets( was deprecated in 2011. They are now sunset in AdWords as we had previously announced . Until recently, developers were able to retrieve and individually delete any old polygon targets, using Adwords API. As of now, all the polygon targets in Adwords campaigns have been deleted. You can continue to retrieve any accumulated stats of previous polygon targets using Geo Performance Report .